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Dr. Kevin Biese serves as an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine (EM) and Internal Medicine, Vice-Chair of Academic Affairs, and Co-Director of the Division of Geriatrics Emergency Medicine at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill School of Medicine as well as a consultant with West Health. With the support of the John A. Hartford and West Health Foundations, and alongside Dr. Ula Hwang, he serves as Co-PI of the national Geriatric Emergency Department Collaborative. He is grateful to chair the first Board of Governors for the ACEP Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation Program. His passion is for improved education and systems of care for older adults, and he has published multiple materials in both these areas.

Dr. Don Melady is an emergency physician at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Canada and a founding member of the Geriatric Emergency Department Collaborative. He is the author of the website www.geri-EM.com – a CME accredited program for geriatric emergency medicine education – and the chair of the Geriatric EM committee of the International Federation of Emergency Medicine.

As the Program Director of the Geriatric Emergency Department Collaborative (GEDC), Aaron Malsch leads and supports the implementation of the Geriatric Emergency Department (GED) model of care internationally. The GEDC is dedicated to improving the quality of care for older people in the emergency department through education, implementation, and evaluation at the individual, unit, site, system, and regional levels. He is board-certified as a Gerontological Clinical Nurse Specialist (GCNS-BC).

Previously, Aaron focused on nursing and inter-professional practice as it relates to the elder population throughout the Advocate Health system of clinics, hospitals, emergency departments, home care services, and long term setting partners. He has developed expertise in rapid, system level implementation, sustainable improvement in practice, research, and demonstrated outcomes. He has also created a nationally recognized Geriatric Emergency Department program with 22 Advocate Health sites achieving ACEP Geri ED accreditation. Aaron contributes nationally to the improvement of care for older adults, as the Chair of the geriatric committee at the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA), GEDC Core Faculty, and reviewer for Geriatric ED Accreditation (GEDA) program at American College of Emergency Physicians.